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Diagnostic

adjective

Concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis.

Characteristic or indicative of a disease. Synonym: symptomatic. "A rash symptomatic of scarlet fever" , "Symptomatic of insanity" , "A rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown"

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"Diagnostic" Quotes from Famous Books

... stress on this irony of Shakespear's, this impish rejoicing in pessimism, this exultation in what breaks the hearts of common men, not only because it is diagnostic of that immense energy of life which we call genius, but because its omission is the one glaring defect in Mr Harris's otherwise extraordinarily penetrating book. Fortunately, it is an omission that does not disable the book as (in my judgment) it disabled the hero of the play, because ...

— Dark Lady of the Sonnets • George Bernard Shaw

... Joy, I think," John answered in his most diagnostic tone—the exact tone in which he would have said, "You have ...

— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer

... resulting from an assemblage of symptoms, some of which do not appear to have yet engaged the general notice of the profession, particular care is required whilst endeavouring to mark its diagnostic characters. It is sufficient, in general, to point out the characteristic differences which are observable between diseases in some respects resembling each other. But in this case more is required: it is necessary ...

— An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson

... northern localities are extremely dark owing to a heavy suffusion of black in the upper parts. The skulls of animals from the Aquarius Plateau resemble those of P. p. trumbullensis in the majority of diagnostic characters. In some few characters, nevertheless, the skulls resemble those of P. p. olivaceus, and in other characters are intermediate between these two named subspecies. In shape and size of the interparietal, ...

— Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah • Stephen D. Durrant

Words linked to "Diagnostic" : diagnosis, characteristic